still new to ide plugin development. i cloned the ...

# jewel

[Colton Idle]

still new to ide plugin development. i cloned the repo and can run the desktop sample. how do i run the ide plugin sample? when I run the configuration from IJ. it launches a new instance of intellij

[HIGAN]

Just open a project and you can find it in tool window

[Colton Idle]

interesting! i wouldve thought the plugin would show up in MY current ide. lol

[HIGAN]

This is impossible.lol

[Chris Sinco [G]]

You can technically run the plugin in development in your own IDE instance by installing it manually (after building it as a zip). But yeah, the prescribed workflow for IntelliJ plugins is to run them in a separate downloaded instance, which is certainly useful for testing in older versions.

[Chris Sinco [G]]

I can’t recall if there’s a way to run the plugin in an existing installation through the runPlugin task in IJ, but that is a general IJ plugin question, and not Jewel specific.

[seb]

you can configure the runIde taks for that but I'd point you to the IJ Gradle plugin docs

[Colton Idle]

gotcha. it was fine to do it that way. just unexpected as a noob here. everything worked though. i am psyched to try to get something working!

[Colton Idle]

while im here. whats the tldr on whether or not these plugins that i create with jewel will work in AS? I think in the talk chris and Seb gave, there was a note that this is intellij only for now?

[seb]

See https://github.com/JetBrains/jewel?tab=readme-ov-file#branching-strategy-and-ij-platforms

[Colton Idle]

awesome. okay so i can use it, just need to "bundle" it. im fine with that. cheers